As usual on Easter Sunday morning, an empty cross is transformed through the services to one full of flowers to represent new life after Christ’s Resurrection. Today the cross was started with the All Age Worship and then following by the congregation of the Communion...
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This superb banner was made by children at the Children’s Activity Morning last Saturday. Each child made a butterfly to represent the new life of Easter, and they were all stuck to this banner which was hung high above the chancel of the church for Easter...
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We couldn’t find a Fireman Sam to look after the fire for lighting the Paschal Candle at the Easter Eve Vigil, so we found this chap called Derek . . .
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This service is one of the most amazing of the church year. The congregation gathers outside the church door, in the gathering gloom of dusk, and the first ancient tradition of the service is to light the new 2012 Paschal (Easter) candle from the flames of a fire. The candle then leads the congregation into the church, lit by hundreds of candles. This is a stunning visual representation of the light of Easter after the darkness of Good Friday,...
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At our At the Foot of the Cross service for Good Friday this afternoon, Amanda had picked selections of readings from a book unknown to me: Charles Dickens The Life of our Lord. It was very apt being the bi-centennial of Dickens’ birth. Dickens’ novels and short stories are well-known but I had no idea that he had written a book, about the life of Jesus, obviously based on the Gospels. He originally wrote it for his children, with...
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If you’re not one for twittering or any other type of social networking, you can keep abreast of the latest news from people or organisations we follow at St Mary’s. We now publish a daily paper, at 8am each day, which is a daily digest of news from Twitter or the internet. This ranges from church news, Traidcraft, charities or local events. This paper is available using the church web site and clicking on the link for “St...
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